From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>, govind raj <agovinda04@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID 5+0 support
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:07:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060119180748.GX10884@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43CFCBB2.3050003@cfl.rr.com>
On 2006-01-19T12:26:10, Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> Why on earth would you want to stripe two raid-5's instead of using one
> raid-5 that is twice as big? You'd get more usable disk space that way.
If redundancy is the goal - to be able to withstand two drive failures
-, RAID6 would be the considerably better choice.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée
--
High Availability & Clustering
SUSE Labs, Research and Development
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business -- Charles Darwin
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-19 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-19 16:52 govind raj
2006-01-19 17:12 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-19 17:26 ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-19 18:07 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2006-01-19 18:36 ` Martin Drab
2006-01-19 19:06 ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-19 20:14 ` Martin Drab
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